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Witneoozo CHRISTIAN VIEMAN, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

WASHING-MACHINE Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 5, 1908.

Application filed January 25, 1908. Serial No. 412,620.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHRISTIAN VlEMAN, a citizen of the United States,residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Washing-Machines, ofwhich the following is a specification.

This invention is a washing machine of the cylinder type, and it ischaracterized by an improved construction of cylinder for containing theclothes, within the outer casing, whereby when the cylinder is rotatedthe water will be forced and drawn through the clothes, to veryeffectively perform the intended purpose.

The invention is illustrated in the ac companying drawings, in whichFigure 1 is a side elevation with the outer casing in section. Fig. 2 isa cross section.

The outer casing of the machine consists of two substantially circularheads 6, preferably made of wood, and a drum or shell 7, which may beconveniently made of metal. A removable cover 8 is provided at the top,and the casing so formed is supported upon legs 9 fastened to the endsof the drum.

\Vithin the casing is a double chamber or holder for the clothes, eachpart or section of which consists of two heads 9 which are elliptical inshape, and slats 10 extending between the heads. These slats are spacedapart, and are also perforated, as indicated at 11, to permit the flowor passage of the water through the holder. Several of the slats areconnected together to form a removable door, indicated at 12, to permitthe clothes to be inserted and removed, the door being held closed byturn-buttons 13. These parts or sections are mounted upon gudgeons 14extending through the heads of the outer casing at the center thereof,and one of these gudgeons has a crank 15 or other means for turning thesame.

The two parts or sections of the holder are set with their longer axesat a ri ht angle to each other, the two adjacent hea s being fastenedtogether by bolts or the like to preserve the relative position of thearts. Thelong axis of one of the elliptica holders crosses the shortaxis of its fellow, and consequently the ends of one holder projectbeyond the sides of the other, in closer proximity to the wall of thecasing. In conse uence of this construction, the ends of the e lipticalholders will act to strike or beat the water in the tub as the holdersare rotated, thereby causing the water to be forced through the spacesbetween the slats and through holes in the slats, and consequentlythrough the clothes within the holders; and accordingly the water will,when the ends of the holders are lifted, flow out between the slats andthrough the perforations, carrying with it such dirt as may be dislodgedfrom the clothes by the action. The arrangement of the sections at rightangles to each other causes a circulation or agitation of the water fromone side to the other, thus producing a continuous flow of the waterthrough the clothes, in one way or another. The beating action resultingfrom the elliptical shape of the holders is much superior to the actionwhich would result from the mere rotation of a circular holder withinthe Water.

I claim:

1. A washing machine com rising an outer casing and a pair of ellipticalolders therein having sides formed of spaced slats, these holders beingfastened together with their longer axes at an angle to each other, andmounted to rotate within the casing.

2. A washing machine com )rising an outer casing, and a plurality of holders therein elliptical in cross section, the holders being mounted torotate in the casing and fastened together with their longer axes at aright angle to each other and each projecting at its ends beyond thesides of the adjacent holder.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

CHRISTIAN VIEMAN.

WVitnesses:

FLORENCE HENDERSON, H. G. BATOHELOR.

